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  • MotoGP: Celebrate 70 YEARS of top flight racing and impress your mates with these FACTS and FIGURES.

    MotoGP: Celebrate 70 YEARS of top flight racing and impress your mates with these FACTS and FIGURES.

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    Motorcycle Grand Prix is celebrating 70 years of top flight racing at this weekend’s Gran Premi Monster Energy de Catalunya – and here are all of the number you need to know from the past seven decades. 929 – 929 Grands Prix have been contested since 1949; the equivalent of 3114 races across all categories.…

  • TEN fully-restored AJS 7R 2 ‘Boy Racers’ up for SALE

    TEN fully-restored AJS 7R 2 ‘Boy Racers’ up for SALE

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    Between 1961 and 1963, AJS dominated the Junior TT of the Isle of Man, with its AJS 7R ‘Boy Racer’ – and now, you can get your hands on a piece of motorcycling history, because there are TEN fully-restored machines up for sale. The AJS 7R was produced between 1948 and 1963. The bikes racing…

  • ICONIC METAL: ZERO MILES Honda RC30 up for grabs

    ICONIC METAL: ZERO MILES Honda RC30 up for grabs

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    Yorkshire-based Craigs Honda has made a name for itself with the range of exotic and classic collectible motorcycles that pass through its doors. The latest to find their way into the showroom is a trio of beautiful Honda RC30s from 1990 – and one of them has ZERO MILES on the clock. There aren’t many…

  • MotoGP: Valentino Rossi closing in on 6000 (that’s six THOUSAND) Grand Prix points tally!

    MotoGP: Valentino Rossi closing in on 6000 (that’s six THOUSAND) Grand Prix points tally!

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    The Italian could make history at the Czech GP by becoming the first rider to score 6000 Grand Prix points. The amazing total is well within his grasp at this weekend’s round at the Czech Republic. Rossi’s second at the Sachsenring last time out brought his career total up to 5994, which means a top…

  • Get your hands on a front fairing from Kevin Schwantz’s 1988 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500

    Get your hands on a front fairing from Kevin Schwantz’s 1988 Pepsi Suzuki RGV500

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    If you want to get your hands on a rare piece of motorcycle racing history, a genuine Suzuki RGV500 fairing from Kevin Schwantz’s 1988 French Grand Prix machine is up for sale on eBay. 1988 was a big year for Kevin Schwantz. To kick it off, he won the Daytona Superbike race with a broken…

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